What does ketoacidosis mean?

summary

Ketoacidosis is a more serious symptom, generally speaking, it mainly occurs in patients with diabetes. When patients have ketoacidosis, they can show some clinical symptoms, such as coma and shock. There are many reasons for patients with ketoacidosis, the first may be due to some infections, such as upper respiratory tract infection or acute infection, systemic infection, sepsis and so on.

What does ketoacidosis mean?

Ketoacidosis is a relatively dangerous disease in patients with diabetes. Generally speaking, a variety of reasons may lead to ketoacidosis in patients with diabetes. For example, infection is a common factor, or systemic infection or pneumonia septicemia may lead to ketoacidosis.

Other reasons may lead to patients with ketoacidosis, such as patients with myocardial infarction, or patients in surgery or mental tension, which leads to patients in a stress state, sad to some diseases, may also lead to patients with ketoacidosis.

Improper use of insulin dose, or sudden interruption of insulin use, pregnancy and childbirth may lead to ketoacidosis. If patients eat too much high fat food in a short time, excessive drinking is also one of the reasons.

matters needing attention

There are many reasons leading to diabetic ketoacidosis. For patients, we must pay attention to reasonable diet in daily life, take drugs regularly, use insulin regularly, and prevent the occurrence of ketoacidosis.